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Cinema 299, Episode 1: Redondance ou rappeler?

Why do we watch films over and over again? Perhaps we found something in them that we want to see again, or maybe there’s nothing else to watch. Some films haunt us, make an appearance in our dreams or maybe even inspire us to become something that we wanted to be. As the 24 frames are pulled across our eyes every second, our brains create an illusion of motion. Motion picture it is called. They provide the picture and our brains make up the motion; yet we end up paying the money.

Shift yourself into the p.o.v. of the silver screen, what do you see? You see a gathering of human beings all seated in a similar posture with their undivided attention at a projection of light. They are all just seated there and they are all feeling. What is this magic? How did this come about? How can a human be seated in a dark public room and feel things that move him so intimately?

Cinema is teleportation: you’re travelling worlds that you’ve never even dreamed of as you are seated. Cinema is telepathy: the filmmaker is communicating with you even though you don’t even exist on his physical plane. Cinema is telekinesis: you are moved in space and time, and with a bad film you’re just moved in time. Cinema is remembrance: do you remember the first time you were kissed? How about the time you won that race? What was it like? Remember and re-feel through those actors on screen- they have a path, just like you. Cinema is your cigarette break from the real world: it is your 90 minutes with yourself- you are not just staring at light on a screen, you are remembering yourself, even when you’re watching it for the 59th time.

Cinema 299 is inspired by David B Dale’s Very Short Novels. David writes novels that are precisely 299 words in length. Anything more is waste. Today, I’d like to recommend David’s ‘Art Garde‘.